Music delivery system

• US 20040194611A1
• Filed: 03/29/2004
• Published: 10/07/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Auto Tech Group LLC
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Kawana, Yuta
• Granted Patent: US 7,461,122 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 84/600
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/632 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/68 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/131 Library retrieval, i.e. searching a database or selecting a specific musical piece, segment, pattern, rule or parameter set
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols

Abstract

A music delivery system enables a user to listen to desired music at low cost anywhere and any time. It has a server including a music data storage for storing music data uploaded from a personal computer, and a processor for generating a speech-based interactive document describing an interactive procedure with a car navigation system in accordance with information in the music data uploaded from the personal computer. In response to a download request from the car navigation system, the server transmits the speech-based interactive document generated by the processor to the car navigation system. The car navigation system retrieves and downloads desired music data from the music data storage of the server through interaction with the server in accordance with the speech-based interactive document received from the server.

Claims

1. A music delivery system comprising:

a server;

a first terminal for uploading music data to said server;

a music data storage for storing the music data uploaded from said first terminal;

a second terminal for retrieving and downloading desired music data from said music data storage by interacting with said server in accordance with interactive procedure data received from said server; and

a processor for generating the interactive procedure data in accordance with information contained in the music data every time said first terminal uploads the music data, the interactive procedure data describing an interactive procedure with said second terminal.

2. The music delivery system according to claim 1, wherein the interactive procedure data generated by said processor consists of speech-based interactive procedure data that describes a procedure for carrying out speech interaction with said second terminal.

3. The music delivery system according to claim 2, further comprising a speech-based interactive procedure data sample database for storing a sample of the speech-based interactive procedure data, wherein

said processor generates, every time the music data is uploaded from said first terminal, the speech-based interactive procedure data by associating information contained in the music data with the speech-based interactive procedure data sample.

4. The music delivery system according to claim 2, further comprising a reworded database for storing a reworded words that restates information contained in the music data uploaded from said first terminal, wherein

said processor generates speech-based interactive procedure data by associating a speech-based interactive procedure data sample with information contained in the music data uploaded from said first terminal and with the reworded words stored in said reworded database.